Trigonometry Examples

$\csc (x) - \csc (x) \cos^{2} (x)$

Step 1

Factor $\csc (x)$ out of $\csc (x) - \csc (x) \cos^{2} (x)$ .

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Step 1.1

Multiply by $1$ .

$\csc (x) \cdot 1 - \csc (x) \cos^{2} (x)$

Step 1.2

Factor $\csc (x)$ out of $- \csc (x) \cos^{2} (x)$ .

$\csc (x) \cdot 1 + \csc (x) (- 1 \cos^{2} (x))$

Step 1.3

Factor $\csc (x)$ out of $\csc (x) \cdot 1 + \csc (x) (- 1 \cos^{2} (x))$ .

$\csc (x) (1 - 1 \cos^{2} (x))$

Step 2

Rewrite $1$ as $1^{2}$ .

$\csc (x) (1^{2} - 1 \cos^{2} (x))$

Step 3

Factor.

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Step 3.1

Since both terms are perfect squares, factor using the difference of squares formula, $a^{2} - b^{2} = (a + b) (a - b)$ where $a = 1$ and $b = \cos (x)$ .

$\csc (x) ((1 + \cos (x)) (1 - \cos (x)))$

Step 3.2

Remove unnecessary parentheses.

$\csc (x) (1 + \cos (x)) (1 - \cos (x))$